Accelerated Innovation And Creativity

An award-winning accelerating innovation experience

Key tools to innovate better, faster and smarter

Topic Overview: • Do you need or want breakthrough solutions for your business?

• Do you need improved innovative thinking skills as a leader, manager, or business owner?

• Do you want more and better ideas in less time?

• Do you need time-saving tools and proven techniques to share with your teams?

• Do you want proven systems and processes that drive innovation & growth for your business?

• Do you want to develop a dynamic employee culture that engages each team member’s thinking and their engagement in your business?

Program Outline:

• Know brains: understanding how your and others’ brains think with the four-brain innovation model

• Know goals: learning how to clarify goals, challenges, problems, and questions

• Know needs: understanding the need for creative and innovative thinking as well as clarifying barriers and blocks to creative and innovative thinking

• Know processes: learning and using proven processes to generate more and better ideas, including the four-stage accelerating innovation process

• Know tools: learning how to use the award-winning KnowBrainer innovation tool to stimulate innovative and creative thinking

• Know techniques: applying innovation techniques including the IdeaExchange and FlashThinking for innovative thinking as an individual or when leading groups

• Know action: learning proven ways to help people plan actions and follow-through to achieve results

Learning Outcomes:

• Increase innovation thinking skills as a leader, manager, or business owner

• Learn the difference between creativity and innovation

• Learn how to apply a proven four-stage accelerating innovation process that can be applied to any goal, challenge, or problem including:

o Developing new products

o Increasing sales

o Improving marketing effectiveness

o Designing innovative meetings

o Improving employee engagement

o Creating innovative employee cultures and teams

o Achieving life planning and career pathing goals

o Creating strategic plans

o Developing leaders

• Learn how to create and manage innovation dream teams to foster collaboration and creativity

• Learn how to ask more and better questions using:

o The top 10 investigation questions

o The top 10 creative questions

o The top 10 evaluation questions

o The top 10 action planning questions

• Learn how the two-phase M-Curve process impacts the value of ideas

• Learn and apply the question collection technique for clarifying needs, building meeting engagement, and focusing thinking

• Learn how to continuously innovate using the four-stage accelerating innovation process

• Learn how to radically transform brainstorming using the IdeaExchange brainstorming technique

About the Speaker

Dan Brunnert

President and Managing Partner, SolutionPeople Innovation - Chicago

*Consultant to leaders, entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses, encouraging them to work towards their full potential Delivers engaging in-person workshop sessions, conducts results-focused coaching sessions, develops detailed training curriculums for businesses and conducted training workshops throughout the United States, the UK, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and Japan More than 17 years of experience serving a diverse range of clients that include Fortune 500 companies and national associations to small businesses and non-profits Dan’s interactive training style in both in-person and webinar sessions engages participants to apply what they learn to both their personal and professional life so they can achieve results they want Since 1989, over 100,000 people from 200 of the FORTUNE 500 companies and 50 countries have benefited from SolutionPeople’s innovation training. The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) awarded SolutionPeople a “Learning Excellence Citation” for achieving outstanding training results. More than 50% of BusinessWeek magazine’s “Most Innovative Companies in the World” have been helped by SolutionPeople’s innovation training, tools, techniques and innovative experiences